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Loyalty: On the Cusp of Major (R)Evolution

Loyalty program announcements so far this year indicate a major sea change. From the customer perspective, it amounts to a Revolution – where brands are finally giving into what has […]

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Crafting the perfect guest experience, from website to hotel

Gone are the days when a guest’s hotel experience began with the doorman welcoming them into the lobby. With the average guest spending time on at least 38 sites prior […]

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Are Boutique Hotels Ready for Automated Guest Response Software?

This may seem hard to believe, but most hotels under 150 rooms still track guest requests and hotel maintenance manually. That’s right,old school paper logs are still widely used to […]

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Close the Guests Journey Loop: Engagement, Retention, and Acquisition

Today’s hotel planning and guests booking journey is becoming increasingly complex in this multi-device, multi-channel and multi-touch point digital landscape. In fact, according to Google, the average consumer engages in […]

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Don’t Be Creepy: Best Practices When Using Guest Data

Consumers in today’s connected world are more frequently and freely sharing their personal information. Even the most ordinary tasks—posting a photo, writing a dinner review, checking in to a location […]

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Redefining hotel guest loyalty with instant gratification

Guest loyalty programs, originally crafted to reward valuable guests with upgrades or special treatment, have now devolved into a pricing game. It started with OTAs offering discounted rates to loyalty […]

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Making Loyalty Programs Work Harder for Airline and Hospitality Brands

The rise of low-cost carriers over the last decade is putting the airline industry under acute pressure, with the race to the bottom getting ever more intense. Just this month, […]

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5 Ways Hotels are Screwing Up Guest Engagement: How You Can Get it Right

You’d think guest engagement wouldn’t be all that difficult. They’re guests, after all. They’ve already sold enough on your brand to have booked a room. Now you just need to […]

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Why loyalty programs are vital for your hotel’s online reputation

There are very few factors that are more important today than the online reputation of your hotel. Without an established and positive reputation on the web, where most travellers are […]

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Top 5 Reasons Live Chat is a Must for Hotel Websites

Most consumers today are very comfortable using Live Chat to engage with brands and find it extremely convenient to be able to do so at a time and place of […]

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